One Sunapple St. I asked you for an apple You asked me for the sun Knowing outside of metaphors I couldn’t give you one You asked me for a miracle Right when I turned to run And against all odds I Turned around and somehow gave you one I ate my tasty apple You said […]

Lonely Thought Island Lonely thoughts floating In a bright sea of people Another island More Poetry by Silencio Barnes More Facebook Poetry by Silencio Barnes The Original Facebook Post for Lonely Thought Island November 23, 2013 Lonely thoughts floatingIn a bright sea of peopleAnother island Posted by Silencio Barnes on Friday, November 22, 2013

Waking from the Dream Waking up is hard The hibernation starts with the realization The realization that nothing is as it was supposed to be With the job lost, the failed loves, those inconvenient and pesky things Emotions Then the news says death By ingestion, breathing, walking a certain way And it’s all true, all […]

“Our” Sacrifice poetry by Silencio Barnes She demanded that I cut open my shell and let drip my burning soul onto her frigid altar The steam, she said, that arises from such a conflagration would rekindle that imaginary, burning, thing that we thought we had lost so long ago She hands me the knife, for […]

Dear Ignorance, Without going into detail Without sounding feeble We shall say the fact remains that We are different people You ignore my words as if my Slang makes me less equal So what makes you believe that I Would give you a sequel Goodbye, adieu, we live and die Good day, I say, goodbye […]

Some may have been wondering why I’ve been putting out a bunch of short poems with the hashtag #TMMPoetry – well, nobody asked me, but I figured I’d let ya know anyway 🙂 It comes from an NPR promotion from their Tell Me More program. Here at TELL ME MORE, we will once again commemorate […]

Psychomanteum   The old man muttered Seen it all before – Vicious vicissitudes – envision youth Searching for something worthy to weep for The old man muttered The children laughed – The crimson splash gone in a flash A throwback to now ancient past The old man muttered Knowing memory is a lie A puzzle, […]

Sentiments of the Cerebral is a chapbook of poetry that consists of many of the poems that are right here on the site. If you want to read it on the site, go here: https://silenciobarnes.net/tag/sentiments-of-the-cerebral/ It’s the first part of a planned 3-book series collectively titled Eternal Figments of Reality. It was available to download […]

Another Day The games we play, the things we say The way we block the other’s way The strange replay, repeat each day And end each night with silence The gray between us grows and grows But never will it go away My black, your white, our mix of prose Our mentals show the violence […]

Orange, the Unrhymable Word The color, the fruit …the color of the fruit The word, orange It used to be called yellowred One word not two Things change Her favorite color was orange Can you guess her favorite fruit? She mastered the fine art Of peeling the skin In one whole piece Slowly she would […]

Finished The time before – the build up The time after – thought In between there is the void In that void there is me Anger has caused my hands to bleed I am so alone in my mind Staring as the blood becomes Oval jewels within the cuts I will not clean them Not […]

What’s It All About? Over the last several years,  I’ve been posting poetry here and there online. I figured that I needed to gather all this stuff up into one place. I had always toyed with the idea of getting everything I did online together and making my first book out of that. Unfortunately, I […]

A Day in May (for Rena) On a warm day in May – sun desperate To peek from behind playful clouds, Warm, but not unpleasant, And slender fingers of conversation Or music or traffic noise from in the distance Play the melody of life in my ears – I think of you. Not just you, […]

This poem is a refrain (so to speak) of “On Love“ On Love (Refrain) Oft-quoted poetYou can have those summer days I cherish the darkness, the secrecyOf a black-blue night When you can see right throughLight’s absence Eyes reflecting eyesReflecting eyes To one who asked howCould forever be in a glance Gift-wrapped soulRibbons of silver […]

On Love Realization struck Chord of dissonance Opening the universe Revealing truth Youth A condition of unbearable want Disguised as need Between Heaven and Hell Lies a conversation You laugh, a poet That can’t express himself Exhortation Back to Sentiments of the Cerebral More Poetry by Silencio Barnes More Poetry from Eternal Figments of Reality

I, of the Streets Concrete and asphalt Give birth Pain provides seed Death gives unto Gain the motivation How can soul exist When hearts beat Into submission And truth is abstract Back to Sentiments of the Cerebral More Poetry by Silencio Barnes More Poetry from Eternal Figments of Reality

Pachelbel: Canon in D Like waves washing over sensitive skin It is but the touch of her hand She probes in places Used to gentle handling Lightly kisses others Flowing steadily downwards Eyes blood and lips One moans The other sighs I cannot tell which She is the living Breathing aphrodisiac Forever arousing Reversal As […]

On Nature Growing till crescendo It’s consuming more and more It cannot see beyond its window It ignores all open doors It’s been climbing towards an apex Since it crawled up from the shores Adherent first, then master next Then driven to explore It evolves as it ingests It learns to see in metaphor Exploration […]

To Hear A murmur ran through the crowd. From your lips, whispers, “We should leave.” We should breathe. Suffocated by the press of people and smoke, filtered through empty minds. “We can make it back in time,” you said quietly to my ear. We can be as one, or two, together. Pressed between car door […]

Astonished Astonished that my goddess walks in the flesh Regal and sensual she strides through my rest Eternal and forever and a day and my wish Please grant me forever to savor your kiss Level upon level of depth in your touch Yesterday is today and tomorrow is us Future is now when me and […]

Roleplay In the post afternoon Twilight I saw her Just as night dropped Upon the atmosphere Like the wings of the Universe folding in on itself Cloaking the empty streets In tempered darkness Empty but for she Filling in all my blanks Angel of night dark seraph Street lights framing her With a pale yellow […]

Militainment Believing in but never seeing The Heathen, a lesser demon It’s scheming on my soul It’s infrequent but never leaving Ether bleeding out of my pores My spirit leaking Soaked into the Earths rotted core A saddened creature A battered preacher How to die, the radicals teach us Students teaching the teachers And they […]

Colors Each design seemed of mirrors Sliced thin to string And woven thread-like Into the fabric Of her blood blue jeans If I concentrated hard enough I could truly See myself in her pants Silk blouse – The color of A six winged angel’s Lust – Hung loosely About her left shoulder, Line slanting Tightening […]

Once Kings oh how we sometimes fall walking through bottles of prescription inscriptions five cent deposits living off change loose pocket currents the once great halls of kings now alleyways of whispers quite talks of used coffee cups containing livelihood a quarter of a quarter or a nickel plus silver crown of aluminum grasped in […]

Home Away Wooden floorboards Brown piano keys Form a crazy melody Stained with black Marks – memories Of old chewing gum Left by careless child Made permanent By the trod of Unseeing foot wear Fused into less than Intricate patterns In need of a lot more Than the push of the Broom or the polish […]

Take Me Home Thick Newport smoke filters through every pore of my universe Choking every verse spoken and coughing they burst From my mind where they birthed through my mouth till it hurts Cause my vocals are burned by the heat Spilling forth from the womb that is thought Though its god is the Word […]

Tears From Fire Tears from fire Shed blood for blood The pain of the flesh Reflects the pleasure Toss fate into the wind Caution to the waves And breathe deeply Inhale the breath of the universe Exhale darkness Catch a single grain of sand On the tip of an eye lash And dream of deserts […]

Ambiance The ambiance of the child bearerVisualization is lost Screaming spreads religious thoughtChildren pity adults and follow each other Peer pressure made me do itClose my eyes and go back To the third personhim her it Back to Sentiments of the Cerebral More Poetry by Silencio Barnes More Poetry from Eternal Figments of Reality

Flowing And so it flows Of, and yet forming Universal spirit Black and expansive Sending unto all Sentiments of the cerebral Seasons like lovers Beauty trapped in the void To release it Ruin Therefore Beauty in death Pandora’s observation Flowing Free of burden Laden with continuance Perpetuation The ending Is the beginning Of forever Back […]

Ascendance   It was one of those nights When lunar wombs Became pregnant With the words of distant stars And gray matter preached Of the existence of an Inter/Inner planetary fire That burns Into ashes That I blow Away into infinity Causing the birth Of a new universe As I tap the cigarette ash Into […]

Mirrors I see god multiplied a trillion times Each time I look into the mirror Each word grinds against each man’s knowing Until each man’s doings reflect me I see skies that reflect the brilliance of each man’s mind Clouds that rain the tears of each mans eyes Salty rivers that flow between the shores […]

On Death It came one night and told me From beneath a cowl of utter night Starless and stark its smile spread And chilled me like the thought of death Nihility it muttered and Nothingness it said While saying nothing As the one hand That clapped Echoing in my skull Lonely and alone Hungry to […]

The Killing Joke A world within Where feelings end and life begins Called thought Where the process that turns The ethereal into a man dead Rationale to feed his kids Where those questions dwell Never asked out loud But fermenting into a false fact It becomes a given That your man is in all truth […]

Planets Misaligned It struggles to be noticed Amongst a million of its brothers All vying for attention Armless yet reaching It remembers when They were but one And yearns to return To before It remembers the womb And aches to tell Me of existence As I walk this Sandy shore More Poetry by Silencio Barnes […]

Serpent’s Tongue by SilencioBarnes A writing exercise for abcedarians – I like the story I told with the form 🙂 To read the actual poem and see the structure go here: http://silenciobarnes.com/writing/serpents-tongue/ – you will also find more info, the video and some other downloads there. Serpent’s Tongue Apple of eyes, fruit of the womb […]

Reflections aka Mirrors Redux (a re-imagining of Mirrors) Fortune told like mirrors reflect Life in continuance Stuck in perpetual innocence Without the benefits Waters that flow A rapid repetitiveness Sea of life dying From lack of intelligence Drinking to sate But that thirst he will never quench As man drains the Gaia fountain While searching […]

Spirit of Light Heart of Dark Serenity obtained through reflection Obscenities sustained by correction Phallic imagery, erection That means I stand up To my enemies and questions Battles may be fought But the winner learns a lesson The loser learns nothing but To get a better weapon So prepare for the double edge Beware this […]

Final Notice I saw Death caress the neck of her The rest of her rest in peace within the sepulcher “Love lost love gained,” sang the messenger The one truth is that pain is the lecturer Fame is the death of us Chained to the nebula Ocean deep is he who sees through the veil […]

The Speech I’m tired in an empty seat It’s full of me, but I’m dozing off So I can’t see I’d rather sleep Instead of hearing What you got to say I wanna leave Give me room Let a person breathe I’m suffering Suffocating on the Empty words Distracted daze Got me in a cage […]

Likeness of Beauty (For Lilianne) Likeness of beauty sculptured by god and placed before me I rise to your light outstretch to your smile you grow in my mind I am lost in your cloud Lioness on the prowl I am your prey and I pray in the night that you are my fate Incite […]

Plaintive Waters Test the waters The surface breaks Ripples are the daughters Of the stone as it sinks Into the river Reflections of vain beauty Narcissus shivers In the presence Of detection of his sins Making of him Man the Lesser Manic depressive To drown sinking stone Return to the essence Aphrodite born from the […]

Nigger I could almost Taste The word Before it grew From your lips Like so much Strange fruit Made my mouth water Yea, I’ve tasted That bitterness before On Southern plantations And Northern courts Well, you know where You know why I’m sure you Already know The story Written in blood Upon this Nation’s subconscious […]

Except For Dreams It’s so hard To go forward He said looking Slightly to the sky So hard to build Easy to destroy Why do you Think that is He asked me Awaiting an answer That he knew I knew A pause As birds Fly across The sunlit Skies screaming Their freedom Except for dreams […]

Pen A tear ruptures the frame Individual reality screaming Abstract enlightenment unworded Expressionless it dwells within Ripping through all thought Until there is only One To share verbalize explain To open perspective eye ear mind End beliefs and believe anew Mind out of time speaks to the next Mouth piece of the brain Salivating theories […]

Excuses Marriage of media to beast Slave to foreign currencies That wash ashore on native currents Indigenous the waters Extraterrestrial the life That drinks of its body “To live,” thus spake the parasite Heliocentric view that we may see Blinded by its looks Literal interpretations Of ancient fiction Over wine laid on the backs Of […]

Below the Mountain Said the Oracle It is a given that time Moves and is measured Increments within cerebral boundaries So in essence / Ancestor of existence Inner thought can make love to eternity Conceiving internal immortality Watching silently as the Oracle pleasures herself With her own wisdom Watching the heart Measure the pulse Of […]

How I Feel About You Redux You wrap around Snake in flesh Bite delivers pain Pale is she Scales of winter Burn like crimson flame Her words like death Disguised as life It hurts to say her name To those that ask Surrogate wife I choke her in my dreams We fall we fall we […]

How I Feel About You Shafts of light melt icy will Causing a river of emotion To cascade down a mountain of desire Reaching for the salty oceans of love Thoughts evaporate Into clouds of intelligence Occupying a sky of acquired knowledge Raining wisdom Upon grounds of understanding Muddying my perception Back to Sentiments of […]

The Response On the page is the battleground Pen equals sword and the cuts Spill ink and the words lay opponents down She choked on the image he invoked When he said that his head so feels Like a cage full of cynic’s quotes Brave be the being that would soak Up dictated prose rather […]

Styx For I am not scared he said To the man in black Fearing the dark rebuttal Flew the lie upon wings Of sanity’s dieing light It hangs in dark skies Cloudy his thoughts and eyes dark Misted the rivers For who dares cross that liquid Body without tears Gold coin pressed beneath their tongues […]

Beyond Your Surface I can see beyond the surface Pass the shouting and the cursing That deep within yourself You are shallow/without purpose Like a stagnant/fetid pool That hides behind a pretty curtain But baby I can see I can see beyond the surface Pass the talk of you by you for you Pass your […]

A Need to Fall in Love And she looked at me Right into these two browns And Said Child, You need to fall in love Well Well Well I’ve started love I’ve finished love I’ve learned how words Can diminish love I’ve followed roads To the ends of love To make a long story short […]

Possibilities Just as you were walking out, I was walking in. The catalyst that caused the death of a dream that could have been. Back to Sentiments of the Cerebral More Poetry by Silencio Barnes More Poetry from Eternal Figments of Reality

On Actions Remember He said Actions are but extensions of thought And to live is to sin Existence is bitter Survival sweet Reap what you wrought And weep Shed tears for what is lost When you commit To commit More Poetry by Silencio Barnes More Poetry from Eternal Figments of Reality

Pon the Page In the air it floats A whisper of a hope But it screams in my ear As if the river forms its throat Splashing through my thought I echo what it taught From my mouth is birthed The verse of all that’s written I am caught Trapped amidst the lines Locked behind […]

the birth dazzled and blinded by glances from stars that lie distant and hard to find glist’ning from darker skies witnessed and listed it’s fitted to brighter minds kisses from heaven they lifted from mama’s thighs wet red and bawling and screaming and traumatized the soul saw its chance and it leaped and they harmonized […]

That Night Tasted but for seconds upon tongues of spite And spit into the heavens Acidic, like the words, spoken mouth to mouth Quoted as those long dead writhe And grind Against my brain Pain That blossoms behind the eyes and before the fall The darkness cries, and the tears that rise from Its shattered […]

Broken Melody Emotion painted Upon canvas of Shivering flesh A blind artist’s gift Another holds the hands Slightly shaking Sweat drenched grip Of the one that holds the self Bitter heart weeps Cries for the masterpiece That hangs within flesh Like anchored soul Lost light lies Telling false truths Prelude to darkness Life’s epilogue And […]

Time Time is you and me holding hands, to the point where I cannot begin to understand where you end and I begin.   Time is your eyes gazing into mines, as if blind to the world we’re trying to find each other’s light.   Time is that brief second it takes for you to […]

Opportunities Past Gliding, like bird, low over ground Never touching soil She runs over the pavement of my mind Each footfall echoes like thunder within my Inner ear Beauty graces the scene Artistry of a nature unparalleled To my grave will this graven image follow me To this day does that perfection inspire Flawless flower […]

Gutter Child She was lost, beautiful gutter child Life for her was killing time Remorseless eyes shimmered With missing tears, as Chronos died What’s left after? Nothing Can come from nothing Youthful forever melts Into an adult’s dying laughter She grew quickly, for no one can deny The streets’ aging factor She lived fast a […]

August 22, 1787 Fatigued from running Through the universe of thoughts That exists as a single incident in his mind He rests, weary of everything Stopping he seats himself On the edge of a reality Defined by diseased greens And torn pavements Still awaiting the towns nurturing hand Carbon copies of what life once was […]

Mendacious Walls deteriorate Peel back like severed flesh Or truth, shining through Layer, after thick Greasy sometimes bloody Layer of lies A night lover False affection For right prices More Poetry by Silencio Barnes More Poetry from the Eternal Figment of Reality

Dilemma After telling him I was broke Had no car and no job And couldn’t get one without the other He turned to me with that slight grin That never leaves his face “Nigga, you better sell that neem” Neem being a word used for crack of course Funny story behind that but at the […]

A Metaphor Fellated soul releases into the ever spreading darkness Come She whispered And thus was our trade A metaphor *Inspired By A Very, Very Good Poet More Poetry by Silencio Barnes More Poetry from Eternal Figments of Reality

More Than Once Like night and day The light that darkens Hearts prescribe To ease the pain The two Like lightning Strike the same Once told Impossible My burns Displayed For all to see It could happen to you It happened to me More Poetry by Silencio Barnes More Poetry from the Eternal Figments of […]

Morning We slowly fell asleep that night Between us, snoring loudly Lay our doubts Our desires lay upon the floor Dead to the world Awakened by heat I found the sun Where a woman once laid And my doubts burned away As yours were quietly laid to rest More Poetry by Silencio Barnes More Poetry […]

The Colour of Her Eyes A moonlight dream A mirror’s glare Heaven trapped A star blazing above rainbow colored glass The sun spinning in twin patterns Infinity captured in dreamy frames Light focusing through crystal eternity Angry hell fire flaring An ageless universe Multifaceted diamonds The rarest of jewels Dancing souls Forever twinkling spirits A […]

Missing You I miss that look that was always on your face Right before you hopped in the ride The curves of your shape, my grip on your waist The way you was moving them thighs I miss your smile, the way you played Those games you played with my time How you told me no, […]

Intoxicated I Let me drink and speak my thoughts before I die and all is lost let me imbibe and speak of course the truth that lies beneath the corpse of ties that bind now loose I cut the noose that tied us to the cross I ride the wave that follows corks and smoke […]

If She Would Have Told Me If you would have told me That you loved me With that half smirk Betraying the truth of Four separate nights Two of talk One of play And one Of course Of us Endless telephone conversations Innocent beginnings… No Truly Picture A bus stop encounter Finding common ground Work, […]

Phoenix I Fastest the horse of time That races nose to nose with I The first to cross that finish line Pre ordained I re define Myself to host my dream’s desires I quote my hopes from childish rhymes “I wish I may I wish I might” I said that night beneath your skies Dissolved […]

Come by SilencioBarnes Come – The title is a metaphor…for many different things. You can read the poem and alternatively download it from here: http://silenciobarnes.com/writing/come/ Come Eternal the seconds, spent like loose change Awaiting your presence, counting the days Days that exist only to wait on your grace My woman of taste, of scandalous ways […]

Dying Stream Why cry when rivers feed oceans Tears can cause movement but connections cause motions From time out of mind a flow written then spoken The words given freedom till the concept is broken We gain so much nothing but lose the whole notion Of knowing what’s real and what’s strictly emotion Of knowing […]

Victim’s Perspective She gave him the fire He screamed; murder in his eyes Committed slow suicide in between her thighs She gave him the fire He cried, but tears can’t wash the burn He knew the risk, but really, there’s just one sure way to learn She gave him the fire At first denial is […]

On Your Kiss A universe birthed With your kiss. Woman, I sing The song that is you Back to Sentiments of the Cerebral More Poetry by Silencio Barnes More Poetry from Eternal Figments of Reality

On Creation Sometimes one must sacrifice Their whole world, just to gain a piece Of that otherness, the existence That hides just outside of reach That broken thought becomes the Word That dead messiahs preach That Word becomes the unheard void That metaphysics teach What they seek is not an object Sacrifice the semi-logic Chaos […]

Empty of Heart Empty of heart is he that states That he will but does not Church and state will rebuild The Earth and take what they killed Rebirth a clone of man’s will and Worse claim that it’s real and Works but only until it works Then maybe the cycle will end When the […]

Being Attractive Like the flower at night Underneath moon Shining its own ethereal glow Like the waves pushing Unseen currents to break The beach of my thought Like the sun’s brilliance Eternity begotten on the breath Of a single word Divine symmetrical beauty Genes transcending time Just to outline your shape In those jeans You […]

The HerStory of She And this is how lightning strikes Sudden like death, awesome like life And this is how lightning strikes Sudden like death, awesome like life She revealed it one night, like lightning in the dark Words spilled from her mouth like a fountain She told the story in sharp tones; cold, dry […]

The HisStory of He His money bleeds through frozen funds His woman breathes through blackened lungs His son he feeds through paltry sums His rent is due hot water’s gone He tried to do what’s right, was wronged He tried to be polite, was scorned He tried with all his might, lost all He died […]

Unfinished Recital The words stopped so suddenly Falling to the ground as if Gravity no longer held The delicate balance Of sound to air He called a gathering of the children Even held one, bawling, in his arms For to give them the blessing of the lord For almost five heartbeats The Silence permeated the […]

Unrequited Stars shine in the abstract Darkness where thoughts whisper Where secret wishes Meet and become one My coat on your back Winter sings in our ears Wind bites, chills From your fingernails Not that spine shiver cliché Even still, my heart sings You listen to my melody Your eyes attentive Street lamps bare me […]

Hot Air Balloons While at play they will often stop To stare in awe, imagining themselves inspired Some pointing, some exclaim, others silent Minds that want to float free On the air they dream To be as solid as the thought of home Unanchored and drifting Precious with the learning They have yet to gain […]